If the mainstream media is dying anyway, why get mad at it?

Because people like to hate on what is considered "mainstream" and also people like to have a victim complex, they view themselves as the little man going up against the giant mainstream media machine in order to make their point of view seem more righteous.
 
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IRC_man said:
because they still have some form of relevancy. old media relies on the population that falls for their tricks. however, we can hypothesize that over time, this population will decrease because more people will figure out those tricks.
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Yeah but people fall for the tricks of Alex Jones and/or Chapo, too, why single out legacy media I guess is my question?
 
I suppose because journalists are becoming untrustworthy to the masses as they either fabricate, lie, or push an agenda in order to maintain viewership.

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Yeah but people fall for the tricks of Alex Jones and/or Chapo, too, why single out legacy media I guess is my question?
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They give Alex Jones the benefit of the doubt as he's self funded and half the stuff that comes out his mouth is conspiracy theories. If you let him speak, more people get exposed to many conspiracies and get fear instilled in them. Don't let him speak, and that is pushed as "censorship" by his fanatics. There's no winning with media.
 
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ProgKing of the North said:
Yeah but people fall for the tricks of Alex Jones and/or Chapo, too, why single out legacy media I guess is my question?
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Because that media is more relatable and understandable to the millennial and gen-z audience because its loud, brash, and unapologetic. old media still likes to keep a good image, plus we know millennials cant read.
 
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Because, in its death throes for relevance, the 24/7 news channels are causing genuine mental harm to the remaining populace who still take it seriously. Everyone ITT probably knows that one aged family member who lives their lives in terrible fear of American concentration camps being right around the corner because #Blumpf, or the terror of a communist takeover of middle America because a couple sped groups in Portland keep fighting.

I'd be much happier rejoicing in the death of corporate mainstream media if everyone held them in the same esteem as I do.
 
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The Last Stand said:
They give Alex Jones the benefit of the doubt as he's self funded and half the stuff that comes out his mouth is conspiracy theories. If you let him speak, more people get exposed to many conspiracies and get fear instilled in them. Don't let him speak, and that is pushed as "censorship" by his fanatics. There's no winning with media.
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TBH, if both the far-left and the far-right were banned from mainstream places like Twitter, I wouldn't have any problem with that. But only banning right-leaning people is definitely censorship.
 
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The Last Stand said:
I suppose because journalists are becoming untrustworthy to the masses as they either fabricate, lie, or push an agenda in order to maintain viewership.


They give Alex Jones the benefit of the doubt as he's self funded and half the stuff that comes out his mouth is conspiracy theories. If you let him speak, more people get exposed to many conspiracies and get fear instilled in them. Don't let him speak, and that is pushed as "censorship" by his fanatics. There's no winning with media.
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There is a small but compelling amount of evidence on the net that Alex Jones has close ties to the CIA & that a lot of what he's pushing is actually disinformation, rather than pure conspiracy theory.

I think the idea being pushed that the MSM is dying is actually spin. Look at how many MSM links are given as sources just on this site & multiply that by the garillions of other places, including FB & Twitter, where the MSM are promoted as a reliable source. I even know of people here that think if a story wasn't on the BBC, then it didn't happen. The normies love the MSM.
 
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They won't just die or adapt. They've been trying to discredit alternative news sources and are attempting to sanitize the entire internet for their selfish needs.
 
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Because it’s not really as irrelevant or “dying” as they want it to be.

If it were truly dying, we wouldn’t be seeing 24-hour news channels being broadcast over every television in a public place and headlines crammed into every available blank space on the internet. If it were truly irrelevant, people wouldn’t be posting articles from MSM news sites all over social media and having flamewars about them.

Sure, it’s completely untrustworthy. It always has been. And maybe there are more people acknowledging that now than there have been in the past. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t huge amounts of other people who still pay attention it and take it at face value, and unfortunately, they’re the ones dictating most of the conversations.
 
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It's not dying.

And in order for it to die, Boomers and Gen X need to die. And that's going to take another 20-30 years or so.
 
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